Help Me Learn Addition

by Jean Marzollo (Author)

Help Me Learn Addition
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
Bright photographs of puppets, marbles, chicks, dogs, and other fun objects, a rhyming text, and a fun game help children learn to add. A companion to Help Me Learn Numbers 0-2-.
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Publishers Weekly

In this companion to Help Me Learn Numbers 0-20, Marzollo and Phillips teach basic addition skills by making use of rhymed verse and bright photographs of toys and other recognizable objects. In one spread, a word problem prompts readers to add up the riders on a toy train ("Here comes the math train/ straight from Penn!/ 7 plus 3/ equals 10"), while other scenes feature monster finger puppets and ceramic dogs. Concepts like "skip counting" and using tally marks are also introduced, although the rhymes can get overwrought in the process: "Spaceship babies/ want to know more./ Can we tell them what tally marks are for?/ Tally marks help/ us count today./ Here's a math sentence/ the tally mark way." Still, this is an inviting visual introduction to addition. Ages 3-7. (Mar.)

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School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 2--Using the clean photographic style and bouncing rhymes of Marzollo's "I Spy" series (Scholastic), this energetic picture book features basic math concepts such as counting, addition, counting by twos and fives, using tally marks, subtraction, and division. Child-friendly objects such as marbles, finger puppets, and animal figurines demonstrate each concept. The book is well suited for reading aloud, with mathematical challenges worked into the verses, allowing rhymes to give clues to the answers. Phillips's brightly colored photos make effective use of negative space to highlight specific mathematical elements; the book as a whole demonstrates similar thoughtfulness in the way concepts progress in difficulty, building from previous examples so as not to overwhelm.--Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Carroll County Public Library, MD

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"Child-friendly."

Jean Marzollo
Walter Wick is the photographer of the international bestselling I Spy series as well as the author and photographer of the acclaimed Can You See What I See? series. He lives with his wife, Linda, in Miami Beach, Florida.
Award-winning author Jean Marzollo was the author of over 100 books, including the bestselling I Spy series; Help Me Learn Numbers 0-20; Help Me Learn Addition; Help Me Learn Subtraction; Pierre the Penguin; Soccer Sam; Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King; The Little Plant Doctor; In 1776; Mama Mama/Papa Papa; and I Am Water; as well as books for parents and teachers, such as The New Kindergarten.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780823423989
Lexile Measure
470
Guided Reading Level
L
Publisher
Holiday House
Publication date
February 20, 2012
Series
-
BISAC categories
JNF035030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Mathematics | Arithmetic
Library of Congress categories
Addition

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